PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK - 7 February 2006

Dawn McKenzie

'I photographed this waterspout at 20:30 on 6 February 2006 from the deck of my Home in Manly, Whangapararoa... taken on zoom. This is the first time I have seen one of these... and thought you might be interested, to show this' wrote Dawn.

James Scully

My wife and I were at Browns Bay yesterday evening when I noticed this creature developing' wrote James.

James Scully

James' photographs were taken on a Canon Power Shot S50.

Marc McNaught

Marc's photo of the waterspout was from Onetangi Beach on Waiheke Island.

Nicola

Nicola wrote 'We love the web site it is fantastic. I have a Civil Engineering Company and we always refer to your site,
the 7 day forecasts are a great tool for planning the forward work schedule.

Water Spout seen looking from Torbay out to Great Barrier Island. The island in the left of the shot is Tiritiri-Matangi
and to the right you can see the tip of the Coromandel Ranges. It was taken about 20:30 and 20 minutes later there was some lightning'.

Ian Apperley

Ian wrote 'Thought I might try and top the last lightning picture (shown on 24 January 2006 by MetVUW).

This was taken from Seatoun Heights across the Airport and Lyall Bay, Wellington
looking West over Cook Straight just before 22:00 on 31 January 2006' wrote Ian.

Andrew McIntyre

'First of all thanks for the wonderful resource which I have been enjoying now for several years.

This photo was taken at 19:25 on 7 November 2005 from home at Raumati Beach facing east. There are some water drops on the
lower left of the frame from the rain which was falling at the time' wrote Andrew.

Nick Boyens

I was doing fieldwork up the Kapiti Coast on 13 December 2005 and got to see
great thunderstorm cells developing in the Tararua foothills and
moving off the coast. I managed to avoid getting wet as they were quite localised' wrote Nick.

The photograph was taken just south of Otaki Beach shows the rain with Kapiti Island in the background.

He added 'for the camera geeks they were taken on an Olympus C770UZ digital still camera with the following settings: F:7.1, 1/800sec '.

Robin Booth

'Thought you might like this shot taken 11 January 2006 with Canon Powershot S2IS looking over Parekura Bay (in the Bay of Islands)
to the west' wrote Robin.

David Jensen

David wrote 'Photo taken at 21:00 on Friday 27 January 2006 between Matamata and the Kaimai
Ranges. Taken with Minolta Dimage 7i.
Easterly wave bar which extended along the Kaimai and Coromandel ranges.
Later in the day a group of glider pilots used the lift generated by the
wave system to fly up and down the ranges as well as climb above 10,000
feet.'

Garth Smith

Denise Smith wrote 'My husband Garth took these photos from our land in Hanmer Springs on the 14 January 2006. It was early evening
between 18:00-20:00 and they were taken with a Fuji Finepix 5500 and was facing west.

Vicky Orbell

Vicky wrote ' just thought this may be of interest to you. This lenticular cloud always builds up before a strong norwester.
The more definition between each layer, the stronger the wind. Photo was taken from Northburn Vineyard in Cromwell.
Yes, the wind was about 65km/hr before turning to the south. This happened on Tuesday 17 January 2006. I call it the bad mood cloud because
all staff get grumpy working in the wind!'.

Gareth Renowden

'Your question (in the Wairarapa shots shown on 3 January 2006 by MetVUW)
about shooting the wind prompted me to dig out some pix of a Norwester sunset photographed last year 5 May 2005. The cabbage tree,
hills and lenticular clouds is rather graphic' wrote Gareth.

Gareth Renowden

He added 'It was a fantastic evening: the sun was illuminating the internal structure of the wave cloud (all shot with Canon EOS 300D)'.

Sent in by Brad Henderson

'My partner Asia and I drove all the way up to Cape Reinga during our
Christmas Holiday. On the way north to Cape Reinga, our timing around
sunset was rather fortuitous and Asia managed to get this amazing shot
from the side of the road, thought it might be a good entry for photo of
the week' wrote Brad.

Andrew Blackler

Andrew wrote 'Photograph was from Cornwallis beach, West Auckland, at 10:07 on 18 December 2006. Using a Panasonic FZ20 on F6.5 at 1/1000.
Cumulus rising over the Hunuas, post frontal later towering to Nimbus.

Martin Pecher

'This sunset marked the end of another great tour around the amazing South Island on Sunday night 8 January 2006.
Coming home to Wellington on the ferry, I watched (together with all other passengers crammed on the upper deck)
this amazing sunset unfold over the Sounds.

Unfortunately, I only had my small DigiCam handy to capture it' wrote Martin.

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